Definition of short-termism in US English:
short-termism
nounˌSHôrtˈtərmizəmˌʃɔrtˈtərmɪzəm
Concentration on short-term projects or objectives for immediate profit at the expense of long-term security.
Example sentencesExamples
- One consequence of these trends has been an increase in short-termism.
- The pressure to break out of the short-termism that had prevented the EC from making progress in the 1970s and early 1980s came from the objective situation that faced governments.
- Political scholars complain of the short-termism built into the British system, with ministers seeking five-year solutions to enduring problems.
- There is, he suspects, a degree of short-termism about Glasgow.
- There are powerful incentives to operate on a basis of myopic short-termism in the public-funded sector.
- The California recall is symptomatic of an increasing tendency for politics to be dominated by short-termism.
- It is a rhetoric of participation and community to disguise a world of discontinuity and short-termism.
- So far, the answers coming from governments have been a combination of short-termism and defeatism.
- The short-termism that has characterised shipbuilding on the Clyde for decades has to end.
- Wall Street has always suffered from an overdose of short-termism.
- This will involve overcoming the short-termism and anti-industrialism that, though expressed differently, are shared by both industry and wider society.
- Yet this is all short-termism, capitalism's most persistent vice.
- These twin perceptions of total breakdown and dramatic advance are both products of short-termism.
- When the goal is to make quick gains, then the means to achieve them may be nothing more than short-termism.
- What amazes me is the short-termism of the two companies.
- It is a dangerous political issue where self-interest and short-termism risk undermining sound policy.
- We need them more than ever in a world dominated by business short-termism.
- And then there is the endemic short-termism in planning displayed in the Californian and Asian booms.
- Now I think the only thing worse than short-termism is long-termism.
- I agree, short-termism is killing the industry.